Monday, December 12, 2011

New Geospatial Platform Website


"The federal governement and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplateform.gov, a prototype website providing an inital view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps." (See press release by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (11/09/2011)).

This platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest Internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package.  Users can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and application, as well as access data from Federal, State, Tribal, Regional and local government.

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